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Unable to see anchor point and handles of paths in Illustrator (Bounding box)

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December 8, 2011
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Hi. I'm working on an Illustrator file in CS5. Suddenly when using the Direct Selection Tool - anchor points and handles are not visible regardless if selected or not. They're just not appearing. They DO exist though. When I click-drag to select an area where I know there is an anchor point and then I use the arrow keys to move the anchor point - I see the path change. But I don't see the anchor point that I am moving.

This is all occuring only on a particular file. When I open a new .as file and try to duplicate the problem - all works fine.

Any ideas why this is suddenly happening? I assume I accidently hit some thing to change a setting but I can't figure out what. I've checked Selection & Anchor Display in the Preferences, but can't find anything different there when comparing it to a file where everything is working normally.

Thanks

Correct answer Mike_Gondek10189183

View >> Show Edges

Or View >> Show Bounding Box

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kimbao_2009

Participant

has anyone run into this problem where the anchors partially disappear? it's an annoying bug that I run into every once in awhile and automatically solve itself so I never figured out how to fix it

TomSch

Participant

Update: It is now View >> Show Layer Controls (Control+Shift+H OR on Mac CMD+Shift+H)

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dinah68348841

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thankss

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AmberLBenton

Participant

I had this issue once and CMD + H didn't fix it. I had to go into preferences and select 'Show anchor points in selection'.

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ArtRiage

Participating Frequently

Yeah I fall into this problem many times too.

Does anyone even want to NOT see the anchor points?

I think this is part of why Illustrator is starting to fall behind Sketch.

Its an old product that's gotten so bloated with unnecessary features.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/armando+inquig schrieb
Does anyone even want to NOT see the anchor points?

A lot of people actually have been asking for this.

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aeriellek72707514

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CMD + SHFT + H

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HishamHoweedy

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THANK YOU!

jpp94175922

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thank you

teelux_evans

Participant

I was having the same problem in SC6. Thanks

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tongsau

Participant

This is likely a Photoshop to Illustrator confusion. I ran into this by thinking it would Hide a selection similar to Photoshops marching ants. But this only disables edge selection even though it will show you the lines on mouseover. I was in a very intricate drawing and didn't want to see the selection edge. Apparently the functionality of this feature eludes me.